Best Lifting Quotes

We rise by lifting others.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible

Weight lifting is the easiest part of my day.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights – you really have to know what your story is about.

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

When God’s first in your life and your family’s second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that’s the goal and that’s the prayer before tonight’s game and before every game.

Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him bruised would be an understatement. His face is swollen and purple. He has a split lip and a cut running through his eyebrow. He keeps his eyes down on the way to his table, not even lifting them to look at me. I glance across the room at Four. He wears the satisfied smile I wish I had on.

Money cannot help lifting its head.

We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.

There’s a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you’re lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else’s level and saying we’re all the same. The struggle is the same.

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don’t want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

I think that women are powerful and they’re multifaceted and they’re survivors; they don’t have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what’s a man’s place now? Who knows!

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don’t whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That’s usually why you start lifting.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn’t really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn’t do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out.

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can’t look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

Freedom. It’s like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and…it’s like attempting for something.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one’s sights and pushing toward the horizon.